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Recent Examples of docent Sally Merrell, a docent at Forest Home, often pointed out during visitor tours that some of the hills could be ancient Indigenous mounds. Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024 Holidays in History tour: On Saturdays in December (with the exception of Dec. 14), docents will lead a tour through the museum, exploring how European immigrants brought their holiday traditions to Milwaukee. Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024 You’ll be guided by BLF docents who will share the lagoon’s history and talk about the species that live there as well as the plant communities of the lagoon environments. Encinitas Advocate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2024 Every Saturday at 1 p.m., museum docents will lead visitors on a tour through the museum's exhibits that will focus on the Indigenous foods of North America. Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for docent 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for docent
Noun
  • More recently: Some of Harvard’s protesting professors have been denied library privileges.
    David Galef, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Helberg is certain that, regardless of the fallibility of AI detection software, professors and college admissions staffers are well aware when applicants write their personal essays with AI because the submissions tend to be, well, robotic.
    Brad Tuttle, Hartford Courant, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Overall, instructors say that their students’ use of AI tools is freeing them up to teach higher-level thinking that used to be reserved for advanced classes.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Taking place during the events of 2019’s John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, the action flick also stars recruiter Ian McShane and training camp instructor Sharon Duncan-Brewster.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 28 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The medical examiner’s office will first use dental records to make an identification, although that requires doctors to have some idea of who the person is, Ukpo said.
    Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • My doctor, however, didn't understate the situation.
    Eldiara Doucette, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • As corporations roll back their DEI policies amid shifting tides of political discourse, I am reminded that, for educators, abandoning this work is not an option.
    John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
  • This vision cannot be propelled by one segment alone, but by the collective effort of policymakers, health care leaders, educators, and community members.
    Ann Marie P. Mauro, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Law school in Houston After applying to Texas Southern University in Houston, the school dean called him and told him frankly that the school needed to recruit more Latino people to justify its existence with a diverse student body to the state legislature.
    Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Jan. 2025
  • That would certainly work for the ambitious Verlander, the dean of the trio at 19 big-league seasons.
    Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • According to a 2006 article by The Telegraph, Law's parents Peter and Margaret were schoolteachers who married in 1967.
    Tommy McArdle, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The sisters, both schoolteachers, looked so much alike everyone had trouble telling them apart — especially their young students.
    Natalie Morales, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The course is a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree and will prepare students to enter the industry as intimacy coordinators for film and visual media, intimacy directors for theater and live performance, and intimacy pedagogues for teaching in education and in the profession.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • His main teacher was Leon Russianoff, a leading clarinet pedagogue of the latter half of the 20th century, after whom Mr. Drucker would name his son.
    Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022

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“Docent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/docent. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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